Nicolas Cage to play Nicolas Cage, Young Nicolas Cage in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

To anyone who thought Adaptation would be Nicolas Cage’s most bizarrely meta dual role: for undeniably insane reasons, it turns out you were wrong.

THR is reporting that Cage has signed on to play himself—and also face/off against his ’90s self—in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. Written by Ghosted creator Tom Gormican and series writer Kevin Etten, with Gormican set to direct, the film will see Cage in his biggest Travolta swap yet: aging and desperate for a gig in a Tarantino film.

True to life, the film’s version of Cage will be buried in tax debt and doing straight-to-video trash for the money. Meta Cage will also have a strained relationship with his teenage daughter, which is not true to life, because Actual Cage instead has a weird “ghost metal” son.

Anyway, Pseudo Cage is frequently visited by his Ghost of Ghost Riders Past, a younger, cockier version of himself always ragging on him for what he’s become. It all somehow leads to Faux Cage doing a birthday party appearance for a Mexican drug lord who has kidnapped a Mexican presidential nominee’s daughter. The CIA then recruits this Cage to save the girl—and damned if he isn’t also about to save his own daughter, in terms of their strained relationship, probably.

It sounds like either an absolutely bonkers blast or a completely dire, idiotic shit-show. So, if nothing else, kudos to all involved for already making this very authentically meta in terms of any Nicolas Cage movie.

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